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Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal. Jeremy Michael Boorda (November 26, 1939 – May 16, 1996) was a United States Navy admiral who served as the 25th Chief of Naval Operations. Boorda is notable as the first person to have risen from the enlisted ranks to become Chief of Naval Operations, the highest-ranking billet in the United States Navy.
The Fat Leonard scandal is an ongoing investigation and prosecution of corruption within the United States Navy during the 2000s and 2010s. It has involved ship support contractor Glenn Defense Marine Asia (GDMA), a Thai subsidiary of the Glenn Marine Group. [ 1][ 2] The Washington Post called the scandal "perhaps the worst national-security ...
Battles/wars. World War I. James Vincent Forrestal (February 15, 1892 – May 22, 1949) was the last Cabinet -level United States Secretary of the Navy and the first United States Secretary of Defense. [ 1] Forrestal came from a very strict middle-class Irish Catholic family. He was a successful financier on Wall Street before becoming ...
A retired four-star admiral who was once the Navy's second highest ranking officer was arrested Friday on charges that he helped a company secure a government contract for a training program in ...
Vice presidential candidate, 1992. James Bond Stockdale (December 23, 1923 – July 5, 2005) was a United States Navy vice admiral and aviator who was awarded the Medal of Honor in the Vietnam War, during which he was a prisoner of war for over seven years. Stockdale was the most senior naval officer held captive in Hanoi, North Vietnam.
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Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal. Edward R. Gallagher (born May 29, 1979) [ 1] is a retired United States Navy SEAL. He came to national attention in the United States after he was charged in September 2018 with ten offenses under the Uniform Code of Military Justice. In the most prominently reported offense, he was accused of fatally ...
This is a complete list of four-star admirals in the United States Navy. The rank of admiral (or full admiral, or four-star admiral) is the highest rank normally achievable in the U.S. Navy. It ranks above vice admiral ( three-star admiral) and below fleet admiral ( five-star admiral ). There have been 278 four-star admirals in the history of ...